Mason finished sixth in the voting -- not all that surprising considering he needed 46 carries for 304 yards in the SEC title game to get him near his career yards-per-carry average. In fact, many casual college football fans probably hadn't even heard about him until that game (not to take anything away from a guy who's averaged close to six yards per carry).

Mason said that he was really just at the Heisman ceremonies "for the experience," noting that people doubted him all season and he was "fueled" by that doubt.

Fun fact: Food is much better fuel than doubt. Which means Florida State better watch out in the BCS National Championship Game, because apparently Winston bought Mason dinner last week.

Losing the Heisman: Creepy McCarron thinks you're crazy

"Wait, did they just call my name?"

That's kinda how Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron looked when he won the Maxwell Award as college football's player of the year last Thursday.

McCarron's career stats are approximately ridiculous (75 touchdowns and 13 interceptions over the past three-plus seasons, a run during which Alabama went 36-3). He finished second in the Heisman voting, at the end of a long week of winning awards. McCarron said:

"It's awesome, just a dream come true. If you would have told me when I started football at the age of 3 that I was going to finish second in the Heisman race my senior year, I probably would have told you you're crazy.

Losing the Heisman: A&M has all the love for Manziel

Johnny Manziel won the Heisman in 2012 and had the biggest off-season of
all the candidates, what with the autograph-signing scandal that got
him suspended for half the season the Aggies' first game of the year. He finished fifth in the voting this year. Despite having better numbers than last season, his stats couldn't match Winston's, and his team lost four games this season, including the last two in what is very much a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately Heisman race.